Odds of winning at minesweeper with perfect playAnd as a not so significant aside, people can do this pretty quickly with simple logic for a decently large sized board (expert) without making mistakes, so I am not sure what the author of the paper was talking about when he said all solvers are slow...

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Odds of winning at minesweeper with perfect playI am not looking for the best possible algorithm. I just want to know the odds of winning perfect play. Not how to win with the least total computation and the fanciest heuristics. It think it got sidetracked

Odds of winning at minesweeper with perfect play1. It does (calculate this for all available squares. If none are zero, then guessing is a must anyway, and this way the program can pick the lowest) , and two, I just want to know the odds of it being beaten with perfect play.